The plot of "Mr. aod Mrs. -Sen," by Louise Jordan Mun, the author "Mr. Wu", moves through Washington, London, Hongkong, Honan Province and back to Surrey in England. The book has as its theme the problem of interracial love and marriage. Sen King-lo was im the diplomatic service.' Duty held him in foreign countries while homesickness ate at his heart. In the home of his elderly friend, crystal, the next stage ing Miss Julia Towsend, in Virginia, dendrites or branchlike forms and he first saw Ivy Gilbert against a then the perfect crystal? To say background of ferns wearing a jade it ig all due to vectorial crystal-green dress with a dangling red lization force subjected to surface ornament. He had never seen a tension does not carry us far. At good class Chiness girl because, any rate, the result is wonderful. when he had left China girls were A rough piece of cast iron is not still kept close behind walis, but: outwardly a beautiful object but the English girl with her smooth its inward structure is different, dark hair looked as he imagined a for '"'grey cast iron when in a per-Chinese girl should Jock. fect condition gives a very regular From the first meeting the recrystallization, every crystal being lationship of the two passes through distinct and isolated." the stages of acquaintance, friend-The crystallization of meteorites ship, and into love which they both is described. These objects because seek to deny. The day comes when fallen from the skies were worship-neither of them can deny their love. ped, or regarded with extreme re-Sir Charles Snow, British Ambasference, as sacred stones and|sador to the United States, Ivy's images, and are so <tii}. he|cousin, with whom she makes her peculiar crystallization of the home, has lived in Chima and knows; metals of which they are composed can now be produced at will.
The manufacture of Damascus swords was long a guild secret. These weapons are of remarkable strength, elasticity and keenness of edge. They were brought to Europe at thie times of the Crusades and if we are to believe the old the dangers of such a union. He uses all of his power to prevent the marriage even to telling King-lo a secret which he has kept locked in his heart for many years, the secret of his love for a Chinese girl, King-lo's mother's own Sister, {and of the wisdom of her father in' preventing their marriage.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.